Disraeli (1916)

Directed by

Percy Nash, Charles Calvert

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1 min

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This silent film is based on a play about the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli. It depicts key events and relationships from his political life. The movie was later destroyed by an actor who wanted to make his own version.

historicalformalmeasuredold-fashionedstatelyretrospectiveaustereslightly stiff

What happens

Disraeli is a 1916 British silent biographical film directed by Charles Calvert and Percy Nash and starring Dennis Eadie, Mary Jerrold and Cyril Raymond. The film was based on the 1911 play Disraeli by Louis N. Parker, which was adapted twice more, as a 1921 silent version and most famously in 1929, as an early sound film. It was made at Ealing Studios. When actor George Arliss who had made his name appearing in the play, wanted to make the 1921 version in America he acquired the rights from producer Arrigo Bocchi and oversaw the destruction of all copies of the original film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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